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My Mother's Daughter

Writer and therapist Linda Carroll thought things would be different when she had a daughter, back in the mid '60s. Her daughter Courtney, she vowed, would never have to go through what Linda had experienced as an adopted child in the '50s. Courtney was a difficult child, however, who grew up to be a rock star -- we know her as Courtney Love -- and when she called her mother one day to say that she was pregnant, it inspired Linda Carroll to find her own mother. And that opened up a whole new chapter in her life. Carroll tells the story in a memoir called My Mother's Daughter.